In case it wasn't obvious (and I did forget to mention
it) you can send messages to the list by directing
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or

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if you like. Messages are queued up and sent at my
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40K of messages. I plan on -lightly- moderating,
unless wacky things start to happen. I've been
investigating some list software that ensures a
reasonable level of security and privacy and will swap
it in if we feel that the current package is too
shoddy in that regard...but I've still got a lot to
learn about administering the machine to get it right.

Welcome aboard, glad to see so may familiar names
again! Please pass on the word to anyone you know who
may be interested. Thanks for returning and I hope
you'll feel it was worth it!

In case it wasn't obvious (and I forgot to mention it)
you can send messages to the list by directing them
to:

exegesis

or use

Exegesis List

if you like. Messages are queued up and sent at my
midnight (-5.00 from GMT), or when the list has about
40K of messages. I plan on moderating lightly, unless
wacky things start to happen. I've been investigating
some list software that ensures a reasonable level of
security and privacy and will swap it in if we feel
that the current package is too shoddy...but I've
still got a lot to learn about administering the
machine to get it right.

I can tell that Mercury is about to retrograde since
I'm starting to encounter all sorts of weird network
problems...last night, right after sending the
announcement, my ISP (or someone upstream) changed my
IP address, which means that the URL stopped working
for some unknown period of time. Sigh. It is fixed now
and I will keep an eye on it, but expect more of the
typical Merc Rx stuff for a few weeks. I was hoping to
get the list stable before this one. Oh Well!
Nevertheless, I intend to proceed and hope for the
best.

In any case, welcome aboard, glad to see so many
familiar names again! Please pass on the word to
anyone you know who may be interested.

Thanks for returning and I hope you'll feel it was
worth it! The floor is open!

Whatever astrology is, I guess I should observe my own astrological behavior
to see what it is that I do when I am occasionally arm-twisted into "doing
astrology" by some family member. I read my own words (below) and find that
they seem like something I would expect to hear from one of the many females
in my life--I seem to have avoided the use of nouns in favor of trying show
some kind of individualizing (characteristic) relationship between life's
major functional categories. Apparently I stay as close to an algebraic
formula (without constants) as I can.

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> >......could you look at a chart for me? Place of birth
> >somewhere in North Jersey (closer to Poconos than Newark), April 8, 1971
> >approx. 1:30pm.

The Wizard of Oz works in radio, technical aspect of running the station
most of the time, part-time DJ. :)

Lori
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So, I think that as long as nouns seem to be completely useless to my
personal thought processes while reluctantly *doing astrology*, then there is
no-*thing* for me to count, for the purposes of any statistical analysis.
Nouns like "technician" of course occurred to me while looking at the natal
Sun opposite Uranus...but that's because I was once a Navy radar tech. It
seems that looking like an astrological wizard is always just a gamble--the
rolling of spheroid dice with nouns written upon their innumerable facets.
However there does seem to be some kind of pattern to planets in the role of
verbs which are qualified by Zodiac signs, aspects and, perhaps, by natal
angles and houses as well. All of which seems to *do* no more than to help one
tap into one's life-long store of intuitively derived conclusions as to *what
goes with what and why*.

Lori (above), my 20yr old daughter, once emailed me to show me a painting
she had selected as her favorite, one by a painter whose style and subject
matter generally pleased her very much. Now it is my personal assumption that
all persons are seeking something of their own reflection in all that they
chose as their "favorite" whatever. In support of my assumption I want to
show these graphics which compare a drawing by Lori to her own chart, and the
chart of Lori vs the "favorite" painter, John W. Waterhouse (birth time
unknown). I've taken the liberty of exaggerating the likeness of the charts
by picking a birth time that best shows the parallel of emphasis I had in
mind.
Lori also gave me the year of the painter and ask me if I could guess his
birthday using the contents of this painting, "The Lady of Shalott". I told
her that the centralized yellow circle, with the chaotic looking quilted
pattern in it, seemed to me an expression of a the natal Sun conjunct
Uranus...the chain depicted here is also very often a Uranus token, or
whatever word you like. Using this assumed conjunction data I hedged my bet so
as to surround that conjunction's date by 5-6 days either side...:) My guess
at a possible birthday was 8 days off the mark.

My conclusion, if there is one here, is that persons do seem to seek a sense
of unity in life by finding their own "likeness" in the world of things and
ideas. And, in all of this, the nouns of life are not the primary targets of
their search. The patterns of interrelated actions and feelings, as
communicated to the intuitively guided and filtered senses, signal both "like
me" and "unlike" many times during all novel experiences. The search for
novel experience does turn out to be a search for one's self...or one's
feeling of being integral and represented, occasionally reflected, by various
items and situations throughout the fabric of one's life.